Used to brush off those stories as made up forum tales until my own rig started freezing only during video exports. Took me weeks to find a tiny voltage dip on the 12v line when the GPU kicked in. Now I believe every single one of them. Cheap parts might fail more often, but the really weird faults just need the perfect wrong setup to show up.

Ever wonder if the manual's torque specs are for new parts only?

Hey @emmamason, that's a solid tip for sure. But I gotta ask, have you ever had the satellite image look totally fine and then you get there and it's a whole different story? I mean, a late storm or a quick warm spell can change a crossing overnight. I've seen a braided channel from June turn into one scary fast channel by July after a hot week. The pictures are a great start, but they're like a snapshot from last week's weather, not a promise.